Brain, Vol. 122, No. 3, 405-416,
March 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Relationship of lesion location to clinical outcome following microelectrode-guided pallidotomy for Parkinson's disease
1 Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Division of Neurosurgery, The Toronto Hospital, 2 Department of Psychology, 3 Movement Disorders Centre, The Toronto Hospital, 4 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Division of Neurology, The Toronto Hospital, 5 Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology and of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Dr R. E. Gross, Division of Neurosurgery, The Toronto Hospital, Western Division, 399 Bathurst Street, McL 2-433, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between lesion location and clinical outcome following globus pallidus internus (GPi) pallidotomy for advanced Parkinson's disease. Thirty-three patients were prospectively studied with extensive neurological examinations before and at 6 and 12 months following microelectrode-guided pallidotomy. Lesion location was characterized using volumetric MRI. The position of lesions within the posteroventral region of the GPi was measured, from anteromedial to posterolateral along an axis parallel to the internal capsule. To relate lesion position to clinical outcome, hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used. The variance in outcome measures that was related to preoperative scores and lesion volume was first calculated, and then the remaining variance attributable to lesion location was determined. Lesion location along the anteromedial-to-posterolateral axis within the GPi influenced the variance in total score on the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale in the postoperative `off' period, and in `on' period dyskinesia scores. Within the posteroventral GPi, anteromedial lesions were associated with greater improvement in `off' period contralateral rigidity and `on' period dyskinesia, whereas more centrally located lesions correlated with better postoperative scores of contralateral akinesia and postural instability/gait disturbance. Improvement in contralateral tremor was weakly related to lesion location, being greater with posterolateral lesions. We conclude that improvement in specific motor signs in Parkinson's disease following pallidotomy is related to lesion position within the posteroventral GPi. These findings are consistent with the known segregated but parallel organization of specific motor circuits in the basal ganglia, and may explain the variability in clinical outcome after pallidotomy and therefore have important therapeutic implications.
Parkinson's disease; globus pallidus; pallidotomy; clinical outcome
GPe = globus pallidus externus; GPi = globus pallidus internus; UPDRS = Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale; vMRI = volumetric MRI
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